Etihad Atmosphere - 2022/23

[Didsbury Dave]

I suppose that’s what City get when they increase the price from the Ro16 to the Quarterfinal from £35 to £53 (that was just my seat) when we’ve got Wembley to also pay for next week.

I know numerous people who are either doing Bayern h or Wembley, but not many who are doing both… I know two lads doing both and Bayern away too but that’s two lads out of about two dozen.

What’s the Semifinal going to be if we get through; £70+?

It also makes you wonder where they get the tickets. I couldnt even buy a ticket for my Ukrainian lad because he's not a Cityzen, even though he's attended about 25 City games now.

 

[SWPISHOME]

I saw this last night when i rewatched the game.They barely fucking reacted. I'd have laughed at United a few years ago for that if I'm honest. It was mentioned on Talksport too. My sons were in the north stand behind the goal and they said something similar. They said people around them barely cheered.

I was in the North Stand last night 135 have to say it was a good atmosphere really enjoyed it, Yes there was tourists around the North Stand in general but were i was sat was really good everyone joined in with chants.

There was one knobhead that was on videocall to some fella basically for the whole game...Still scratching my head how he done it because I can't get good signal anywhere in the stadium :)

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

I’ve watched the goals back today and noticed on Rodri’s celebration and knee slide in front of CBL1 there’s a chunk of a few dozen fans who are stood there with no emotion on their faces, they aren’t cheering nor even clapping. Definitely tourists there.

I noticed that as well, after watching the highlights. There’s people that didn’t celebrate any of goals. It’s like they are robots.

How are some of these people getting tickets? Lots of them aren’t members

 

[There is a Light]

I saw this last night when i rewatched the game.They barely fucking reacted. I'd have laughed at United a few years ago for that if I'm honest. It was mentioned on Talksport too. My sons were in the north stand behind the goal and they said something similar. They said people around them barely cheered.

Not much we can do about it though when tickets are sold out within a few hours of going to members. I’d have no doubt we’d have sold out to ‘proper’ blues but there were plenty who missed out.

I’d love to know what arrangements the club have with agencies tbh - assuming we go through as expected the scramble for semi final tickets for those not on the CL scheme will be manic.

 

[BringBackSwales]

I had some Korean looking people next to me in the COlin Bell Upper. They were bang into the football and getting well involved but kept standing up when we attacked. We don't do that up there. The blokes behind were screaming at them to "Sit the Fuck Down" and all this but as they had very little English they weren't hearing or getting it. So I had a word and they got it after that. Didn't stop another foreign kid in the seat right in front of me jumping up in a flash and blocking me from seeing Bernado's goal though. I fucking HATE people who do that leap-up-in-a-millesecond thing at key moments. It happened to me about 18 years ago in the lower tier where I missed a winning goal and I've avoided that area since then.

It’s called becoming an FOC! Me too

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

How can you not even clap ? So you go to the game, you see a worldy and barely raise a smile...??? How fucking weird

A little story.
A few years ago, at the League Cup final against the Arse. There was a lad sat next to me with his dad. Must have been a City fan, at least his dad certainly was. Well, you remember how we played. What was gobsmacking for me was that he barely reacted to any of our goals, or at the final whistle. And here's me, into my sixties by then, sacrificing the dignity that behoves my years and doing my nut.
I believe — but it will take many generations to decide whether my hunch is merely that — that the world as it is experienced is being radically changed — and for ever — especially for young people, by the fact of living so much of it through a screen. This lad was pretty much like a zombie. It was as if he didn't quite realise that this wasn't some computer game that he was watching/playing, but the real thing, unfolding in his living breathing presence.
I've often thought about it. Had a very similar experience a season or so later in the F.A. Cup tie against Burnley at the Etihad, where we played them off the park, if you remember. Lad next to me — might as well have been lobotomised.
I think there's some connection, behaviourally, with being at a really big rock gig and spending most of it with your mobile phone held up to record. As if it will only become real to you when you watch the recorded version back.
I feel genuinely sad for them. We were passionate about so many things. Stupidly so, sometimes. Naively so, probably. But we had it.

 

[paulchapo]

I was wondering about that. A comment you made in passing slightly surprised me. My first match was in spring 1968. I can't honestly remember half-time ever only being ten minutes. Are you sure about that? I do, on the other hand, vaguely seem to remember matches kicking off at 7.30 p.m.
One thing I loved about the old pre-satellite television era is how absolutely everybody, in all four divisions, kicked off at 3 p.m. on the dot.

Yes it was only ten minutes. I'm not sure when it changed to fifteen minutes.
Yes every game kicked off at the same time. Also if you missed it you missed it. There was no streaming, live TV and at first MOTD was one game, before they started to show a couple more. The big match on ITV on a Sunday was similar.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

I had some Korean looking people next to me in the COlin Bell Upper. They were bang into the football and getting well involved but kept standing up when we attacked. We don't do that up there. The blokes behind were screaming at them to "Sit the Fuck Down" and all this but as they had very little English they weren't hearing or getting it. So I had a word and they got it after that. Didn't stop another foreign kid in the seat right in front of me jumping up in a flash and blocking me from seeing Bernado's goal though. I fucking HATE people who do that leap-up-in-a-millesecond thing at key moments. It happened to me about 18 years ago in the lower tier where I missed a winning goal and I've avoided that area since then.

You'd hate us in SS2! We all stand up, me the first! Those that don't, well, they're a minority (and need to relocate…)

 

[pride in battle]

A little story.
A few years ago, at the League Cup final against the Arse. There was a lad sat next to me with his dad. Must have been a City fan, at least his dad certainly was. Well, you remember how we played. What was gobsmacking for me was that he barely reacted to any of our goals, or at the final whistle. And here's me, into my sixties by then, sacrificing the dignity that behoves my years and doing my nut.
I believe — but it will take many generations to decide whether my hunch is merely that — that the world as it is experienced is being radically changed — and for ever — especially for young people, by the fact of living so much of it through a screen. This lad was pretty much like a zombie. It was as if he didn't quite realise that this wasn't some computer game that he was watching/playing, but the real thing, unfolding in his living breathing presence.
I've often thought about it. Had a very similar experience a season or so later in the F.A. Cup tie against Burnley at the Etihad, where we played them off the park, if you remember. Lad next to me — might as well have been lobotomised.
I think there's some connection, behaviourally, with being at a really big rock gig and spending most of it with your mobile phone held up to record. As if it will only become real to you when you watch the recorded version back.
I feel genuinely sad for them. We were passionate about so many things. Stupidly so, sometimes. Naively so, probably. But we had it.

You could be onto something mate...

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Not trying to be cynical about this, but how many of them were visibly tourists?

The ones I spoke to were students based in Manchester/North West but they were fanatical about City. Whether we like it or not we are now a global club and Haaland is a world star. On my train back there were some Chinese students based in Preston who seemed to be fixated on Haaland and some fans from Nepal who moved to the North West just to follow City. These are amazing times to be a Blue.